Last week, Trump took his fight against asylum seekers straight to the top, and the Supreme Court okayed it. Sotomayor and Ginsburg thought that set a scary precedent.

And other conclusions you shouldn’t draw from the Business Roundtable’s embrace of a more socially responsible capitalism

The arc of American history reveals an unmistakable pattern.

The biggest autoworker strike since the financial crisis could serve as a renewal for a union battered by corruption scandals.

Every candidate confronts some kind of scandal. The candidates who win are the ones who can move past them.

Where Trump destroys, Warren will build.

The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment.

The best way to avoid the curse of déjà vu would be for the moderators to turn the discussion to topics they’ve thus far scanted.

Google partner Sidewalk Labs wants to remake the Toronto waterfront as a privately run digital development. It may really be a digital dystopia.

Biden makes use of the “Gingrich-Edwards” loophole to avoid payroll taxes.

Republicans sneaking through a budget bill while Democrats attended a 9/11 ceremony exemplifies how the Tar Heel State’s political institutions have been decimated by right-wing rule.

Convention-goers lock in their support, and Joe Biden gets mostly locked out.

The city’s bid to take over PG&E could mark a turning point in restoring a more environmentally and economically just power grid.

This year, a progressive populist may finally get the Democratic nomination. Why did it take so long?

By arguing that “the left” represents as dangerous a threat as mass shooters and right-wing terrorists, Times writer Bari Weiss cheapens the crisis facing America, one that she has witnessed firsthand.

Victims get an email clearly intended to throttle cash awards for the data breach. A bunch of lawyers stand to gain $80 million in the exchange.

The fight in Congress heats up over surprise medical billing, another abuse of the public driven by the private equity industry.

William Barr’s long struggle against congressional oversight

Republican political strategist Ed Lopez discusses the federalist argument for the National Popular Vote.

Faced with few other taxes left to cut, the Trump administration is innovating new ways to make tax revenue from investment income vanish.